Migrants face “cruel and violent treatment” at the hands of Hungarian officials.
A scathing report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) reveals that migrants are severely beaten by authorities before being sent back across the border to Serbia.
“I haven’t even seen such beating in the movies,”...

An Afghan asylum seeker was shot dead by a border guard when he was trying to enter Bulgaria from Turkey.
[caption id="attachment_4949" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Bulgarian police. File Photo[/caption]
The man was with a group of some 50 people, all believed to be from Afghanistan, near the town...

A young sailor with the Norwegian rescue vessel Siem Pilot was found after going missing for more than 48 hours.
The EU Border agency, Frontex, had announced that Benjamin Olafsson, 23, had disappeared in Catania, Sicily, where Siem Pilot was docked, on 15 September.
[caption id="attachment_4680" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The Siem...

EU Member states have given the green light for the bloc's military Mediterranean operation against people smugglers to go into second gear, which entails possibly boarding and seizing suspected boats, even arresting people.
"This important transition will enable the EU naval operation against human smugglers and...

A 17-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was killed while on his way to Greece after suspected Turkish smugglers on board the yacht he was travelling on engaged in a shootout with Greek port police late on Saturday.
[caption id="attachment_4388" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The shots were fired during a scuffle...

A 27-year-old Moroccan man died asphyxiated inside a suitcase after his brother tried to smuggle him into Spain in his car's trunk.
Spanish government officials said the man was trying to cross aboard a ferry from Spain’s North African exclave of Melilla to the mainland city of Almeria.
When the...

A "secure zone" will be created in the French port of Calais in an attempt to prevent migrants from boarding lorries on their way to the UK, British Home Secretary Theresa May has announced.
"Today I can announce the creation of a new secure zone in the port of Calais for...

Libya's Tripoli administration has expressed outrage at Tunisia's decision to start building a 160km wall at the border between the two countries.
This decision is seen as an attack and "will not aid the countries to achieve security," the Tripoli government said in a statement, urging consultation and...

The Hungarian Parliament on Monday passed a raft of laws aimed at speeding the processing of asylum-seekers and the deportation of economic migrants in an extraordinary session.
[caption id="attachment_2565" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Debating chamber of the House of Magnates, Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest. Photo: Wikipedia, Magnus Manske[/caption]
The bill passed with 151 votes in favour...

Someone will end up being killed unless the authorities step in to protect truck drivers from desperate migrants trying to get onboard UK-bound lorries from Calais, the Road Haulage Association has warned.
“They are intimidating, some of them have metal bars, knives and, in one incident,...